ITA: DTS fixtures turn on the lights for Social Music City

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by Thomas Richard - July 25, 2018July 25, 2018

The former railway station of Porta Romana is one of the 'historic' areas of Milan waiting to be recovered with a project of urban revaluation. Since 2015, 'Social Music City' has enhanced that unused space with its tensio-structure, attracting thousands of young people thanks to the DJ sets of the best

GBR: Northern Lights Shine at the Minster

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by Thomas Richard - July 20, 2018

Artists Ross Ashton and Karen Monid returned to York Minster to deliver an immersive and intricately crafted sonic and visual work ‘Northern Lights’. The video projection and sound installation was commissioned by the York Minster Fund as the culmination of ‘The Northern Lights Dinner’ fundraiser. This was held as part of

GLOBAL: Marillion gets animated with the Claypaky Scenius Spot

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by Thomas Richard - July 2, 2018

British progressive rock pioneers Marillion are currently delighting fans with their hit world tour, which marks over three decades of the band's music. A celebration of musical storytelling, the show is enhanced by a theatrical lightscape created by the band's long-term lighting designer Yenz Nyholm, who selected the Claypaky Scenius

GBR: Bullet For My Valentine takes on festival season with dLive

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by Thomas Richard - July 2, 2018

Welsh heavy-metal giants, Bullet For My Valentine, have recently embarked on their summer trek across the UK and Europe, supported by two Allen & Heath dLive S Class systems. Supplied by SSE Audio, the band’s set-up includes two S5000 surfaces, each paired with its own DM64 MixRack, covering FOH and monitors,

ZAF: Robe is Mega Beautiful

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by Thomas Richard - July 2, 2018

Joshua Cutts is someone who knows how to make things – stages, sets people – look beautiful, and 2018 was the fourth time he has lit the Miss South Africa beauty pageant event, which this year selected the country’s delegates for the two highest profile global beauty contests - Miss

AUS: TDC shines at Vivid Sydney 2018

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by Thomas Richard - June 14, 2018

Australian entertainment technology company TDC – Technical Direction Company – has been providing large scale projection mapping and technology for this year’s Vivid Sydney, which takes place over 23 nights from 25 May – 16 June. Vivid Sydney is the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas. It takes place

USA: Robe Gets Closer to Kane Brown

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by Thomas Richard - June 5, 2018

Talented American country music singer, songwriter and rising star Kane Brown is on the road opening for Chris Young’s ‘Losing Sleep’ tour, and lighting designer Andrew James wanted a practical and spectacular specials rig to give the young artist’s set full impact. He turned to Robe moving lights - 18 x

USA: CHAUVET Professional Hits Broadway With Michael Stiller’s Rocktopia Design

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by Thomas Richard - May 22, 2018

Unlike all but a handful of other venues in Manhattan’s famed theatre district, the Broadway Theatre is actually located on Broadway. This is far from the only thing that stands out about this big (by Broadway standards) 1760-seat theatre. Throughout its 94-year history, it has housed trailblazing productions, including the

GBR: disguise gx 2 go global for Metallica’s 2018 WorldWired Tour

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by Thomas Richard - May 22, 2018

disguise gx 2 media servers are at the heart of Metallica's current WorldWired Tour where they have been used to sketch ideas, preview and run the dynamic show. The gx 2's integration with Notch plays a key role in the production, being extensively used for IMAG, post and real-time effects,

USA: HES SolaHyBeams Provide Three-in-One Lights for G3 World Tour

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by Thomas Richard - May 18, 2018

The G3 2018 world tour needed three different designs for its three distinctive guitarists. Production designer/lighting designer Alastair Watson – who is also the production manager – had a tight budget and a one-truck space constraint. One rig had to do it all. So he specified 16 High End Systems